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Dead Man's Money

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Oranges in the Snow

from the back cover: 'Everything's ready now. We can do the experiment,' says your assistant Joe. You are the famous scientist Mary Durie working in a laboratory in Alaska. When you discover something very new and valuable, other people want to try to steal your idea - can you stop them before they escape?

Shirley Homes and the Lithuanian Case

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780194793698

Collation

56p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Bookworms 1

Call Number

BAS

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